Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-05-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
parnell has improved.

parnel has improved.
Lord Colin Campbell has been adjudged
bankrupt.
The Gar and family have arrived in
Gat>china.
Il is officially denied that Prince Fitz's
throat trouble Is serious.
Cleveland has accepted All invitation t"
visit 81. LurliS IN December.
Allen g. Thurman. ST.. positively de
clineS to accept the democratic nomination
for governor ot Ohio.
Another gas well has been finished near
lima. o.. and flows al an estimated rate oi
10, 0O0, 900 cubic feet per day.
VIM Warnecke. at Houston. Ten. delib-
erately fired 5: s::xishotS into the body of his
sister as she lay in bed. aud escaped.
Henry Schwartz and Newton Watt, the
Rock Island lIll.) train robbers, have been
sentenced 10 the penit-ntiary for life.
The village of Hawthorne. eighteen
miles south of Superior. Wis. was entirely
destroyed by the forest fires now raging in
that neighborhood.
In consequence of Secretary Bayard not
replying to England's fisheries proposition,
last years policy of seiZng American ves-
~ti> VIII bt EtbtNtN-
The Mover and Fort Hill Coke Works
near Uniontown, Pa. has conceded the
demand of the strikers for an advance. and
this is an important break in the strike.
Samuel Rouch. a commandment. walked
through a window at the Farmers hotel
Canton. %, of porch twenty feet Ia the
pavement below. and was seriously injured.
There is talk OF President Greyy resign
ing because of the cabinet complications,
which yet makes no progress 10 solution,
and the candidacy Of B"ulanger for the
presidency.
The Latonia Derby was won by LibrettO,
JiM Gore second and MnntroSe third.
Mamie Hunt. Malaria. Jacobin and Buck
hound were the other winners of the open
ing days races.
Secretary Lamar has issued All order Ia
the land-grant railroads 10 show cause why
the lands now held in indemnity and not
taken up by the roads should not be restored
to the public domain.
Governor Gray, of Indiana, has decided
10 remove Dr. Harrison, president Of the
beneyolen; boards ot the state. and appoint
Joseph Carson. Of Sheibyyille. Harrison
, will decline To give up the place aud there
will be trouble.
Base ball-Athletic II. Cleveland 6: Chi
cago q, Philadelphia =: New York Ia, PITTS
burg l.; Washington Z. Detroit q; Indian
/ apoIis ., Buston :: Columbus :. Aknon Il:
I Hamilton o. Rochester ;: Buffalo ii,
Toronto Il: Memphis I, Charleston ).
| The recent decision of the president con
salidating the revenue districts of the
! country, boIishes the Sixth Ohio and the
Eleventh Indiana districts. the business of
the former being turned over to the First
, Ohio. and the latter Ia the Sixth Indiana.
| At Hamilton. ont. an attempt was made
upon the life Of O'Brien. the Irish agitatnr.
Fight shots were fired into the carriage IN
which he was being driven from the place
of meeting To the hotel, and the driver was
seriously wounded. The occupants of the
carriage escaped unhurt.
! The demand that every workingman in
the building trades of Chicago sign card
of principles formulated by the employers
has been radically modified. Only an
assent" Ia the principles will be required.
: Ry this action the most salient feature OF
/ the building contractors fight was virtually
| amended out of existence. and tie pro
posed attempt to make fifty thousand work
men individually subscribe in writing tC
their employers code has been abandoned